The Squacco herons are back now the Nile has come up on depth and covered what is left of the inlet. the heron is here in the upper delta all year, but is usually a loner seeking its food along the banks of the Nile river in what is normally a fast flowing river, here on the banana island inlet. the water comes in and is now stopped by the landfill some 100 yards from the flowing Nile. as the photos show there id a lot of floating debris most of this is normal from the last years growth of reeds and plants along the Nile, it is also what the fish feed on often I see a reed movement where a fish is feeding on whatever on the stem of the reed below water. and this is what the squacco heron watches before it dives in for the kill today where normally I only see one Squacco I saw 25 today and they where quite near to each other often having squabbles who should be where.
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next blog will be on the young Little white egrets now they have found their wings and leaving the heronry.
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